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title: Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said, “I des… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said, “I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg.” Who acts: dog, folly. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 119

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Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said, “I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg.”

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**Who acts:** dog, folly · **What happens:** suffer, say, deserve, think, be · **To what, where:** great pain, stomach, torment, egg · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, folly), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:15:119
# text = Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said, “I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg.”
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	deserve	deserve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	torment	torment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
23	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	27	compound	_	_
27	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	_
28	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
30	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | gerund | dog *not said here* | great pain |  | dog's stomach |  | afterwards, soon *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **deserve** *in a quote* | present | dog | all torment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | gerund | my folly *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | must | my folly | a egg |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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